[Info-vax] VMS to VMS data copy options/performance when losing a DECnet link

[Steven Schweda]

> We only used ZIP on backup savesets to preserve saveset attributes
> when they were transferred to PC servers, not for any VMS to VMS usage. 

   Just to repeat, using "zip -0" simply to preserve the attributes of a
BACKUP save set seems to me like excessive I/O to preserve a record
format and a record length, both of which could be restored in
approximately no time using SET FILE /ATTRIBUTE (or BACKUP /REPAIR). 
DCL scripts exist to do it automatically.  See, for example:

      http://antinode.info/dec/sw/fixrec.html